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Towards a Possible Definition of Consciousness 走向意识的可能定义

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Biosystems Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105526

Marko Vitas

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Detailed analysis of the quantum relaxation features in the cell microtubules: Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics 细胞微管中量子弛豫特性的详细分析：马尔可夫动力学和非马尔可夫动力学。

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Biosystems Pub Date : 2025-06-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105520

V.A. Saenko , S.Eh. Shirmovsky , D.V. Shulga

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Grounding information in thermodynamics and the ungroundedness of language: A missing aspect of anthropogenesis 热力学中的基础信息与语言的不基础：人类形成的缺失方面。

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Biosystems Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105524

Terrence W. Deacon

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Impacts of emergent structural topologies on the stability of an adaptive plant-animal network 紧急结构拓扑对适应性植物-动物网络稳定性的影响

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Biosystems Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105522

Min Su, Zhongyi Wang, Qi Ma

{"title":"Impacts of emergent structural topologies on the stability of an adaptive plant-animal network","authors":"Min Su, Zhongyi Wang, Qi Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105522","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105522","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Plant species, interacting with both pollinators and herbivores, form a 3-guild ecological network that encompasses mutualistic and antagonistic subnetworks. These plant-animal interactions typically evolve through adaptive interaction switching, which tends to promote species abundance. In this study, we constructed an adaptive plant-animal network and explored how interaction rewiring among species from different guilds influences the structure and stability of this 3-guild network. Our findings reveal that interaction rewiring dynamically reshapes network architecture, with plant degree centrality correlations between mutualistic and antagonistic subnetworks emerging as a critical determinant of community stability. Notably, extreme centrality correlations, driven by interaction switching, can undermine network stability. In contrast, moderate correlations enhance resilience, rendering optimized networks more robust than their randomly assigned counterparts. These results underscore the importance of interaction switching in shaping the structure and stability of 3-guild ecological networks. Moreover, these findings provide mechanistic evidence that plant generalism fundamentally influences resilience in optimized networks, mediated through the evolutionary trade-off between herbivore defense and pollinator attraction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50730,"journal":{"name":"Biosystems","volume":"254 ","pages":"Article 105522"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144331084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Biosystems Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105521

Roland Cazalis

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Animal and human behavior to maximize energy income and to minimize its expenditure 使能量收入最大化，消耗最小化的动物和人类行为

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Biosystems Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105523

Alexander V. Sirotkin

{"title":"Animal and human behavior to maximize energy income and to minimize its expenditure","authors":"Alexander V. Sirotkin","doi":"10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105523","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105523","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The viability and competitiveness of any living organism depend on its ability (1) to get the maximum of energy/resources and (2) to save maximum of obtained energy and to reduce its expenditure. Behavioral traits to achieve these goals listed above include different forms of territorial and social behavior, overconsumption of resources, temporal suppression of energy-demanding activity, as well as some kinds of individual protective behavior towards minimization of energy expenditure for manual and intellectual labor. In addition to these measures, in modern humans the increase in energy consumption: energy expenditure rate can be achieved not only by cooperation in increase of the efficiency of biological processes, but also in the application of instruments. The technical progress aims to unleash the people from energy-demanding labor, to get as much energy for covering their biological needs by investment of minimum of their own bioenergy. The present interdisciplinary approach enables a better understanding of the behavioral strategies to maximize efficiency of energy metabolism and their good and bad consequences for individuals and the society as a whole.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50730,"journal":{"name":"Biosystems","volume":"254 ","pages":"Article 105523"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144331083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A never-ending prediction: meta-prediction, counter-oscillatory system and traumatic affordance 永无止境的预测：元预测、反振荡系统与创伤性提供

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Biosystems Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105508

Clémence Ortega Douville

{"title":"A never-ending prediction: meta-prediction, counter-oscillatory system and traumatic affordance","authors":"Clémence Ortega Douville","doi":"10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105508","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article comes back on the hypothesis developed by the evolutionary theory of the sensorimotor paradox that our capacity to produce mental representation could be derived from a dissociation of sensory prediction systems from motor action. As they should be then coordinated together, we are drawing further possible leads regarding the intermediary space between linear mental projections that are not bound and stopped by sensory feedback, and ongoing sensory perception whether large or discrete. Dissociated prediction would be eventually interrupted by sensory input, getting lost, reinitiated and derived onto another prediction. In that sense, we connect this inspection with studies on attentional capture and the interference caused by sensory perception of cyclical and discrete body events such as breathing, blinking and swallowing. A global state of balance and expectation to dissociative activity, called meta-prediction, could compensate on the other hand for the lack of sensory feedback. As a representational infrastructure, its model is to be detailled, as would be the role of a system's avoidance of memories of pain, defined here by the concept of traumatic affordance, or the stabilising role of gravity. If the stochastic approach of this hypothesis is yet mostly speculative, interrogating mental imagery and language's structure, this article suggests several ways of testing the theory based on upcoming EEG recordings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50730,"journal":{"name":"Biosystems","volume":"254 ","pages":"Article 105508"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144312898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The repertoire of candidate archaeal noncoding RNAs and their association with temperature adaptation 候选古细菌非编码rna及其与温度适应的关系

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Biosystems Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105519

Raúl Arias-Carrasco , Victor Aliaga-Tobar , Sebastian Abades , Vinicius Maracaja-Coutinho

{"title":"The repertoire of candidate archaeal noncoding RNAs and their association with temperature adaptation","authors":"Raúl Arias-Carrasco , Victor Aliaga-Tobar , Sebastian Abades , Vinicius Maracaja-Coutinho","doi":"10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105519","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105519","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) play a crucial role in the fine-tuning regulation of cells in all domains of life. In archaea, ncRNAs remain poorly studied, with only a few ncRNA classes well characterised. Archaea are renowned for their ability to survive in harsh environments, though they have been discovered in a variety of other habitats as well. We have determined the ncRNA candidate repertoire across 270 archaeal genomes using secondary structure inferences and sequence similarity searches. Here, 33 non-coding RNA classes were identified in these genomes. The correlation between all ncRNA classes and optimal growth temperature (OGT) was R<sup>2</sup> 0.65. Phylogenetic analysis based on multiple alignments of a set of highly conserved proteins revealed preferences for ncRNA classes at the phylum and genus levels. All of the ncRNA data generated by this study reveals a correlation between the genomic abundance of specific ncRNA classes and the optimal growth temperature, especially for the sRNA C/D box type. All the genomic and ncRNA archaeal data generated is a valuable resource that will stimulate experimentalists to investigate whether or not their predicted ncRNAs are correct and biologically meaningful, boosting further associative studies using the unique features of this domain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50730,"journal":{"name":"Biosystems","volume":"254 ","pages":"Article 105519"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144271659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From code to archetype: Toward a unified theory of biological, neural, and artificial artifacts 从代码到原型：迈向生物、神经和人工制品的统一理论。

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Biosystems Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105516

João Carlos Major

{"title":"From code to archetype: Toward a unified theory of biological, neural, and artificial artifacts","authors":"João Carlos Major","doi":"10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105516","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105516","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Carl Jung's concept of archetypes as innate, universal structures of the human psyche finds surprising resonance with contemporary theories in Code Biology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. Archetypes, far from being metaphysical abstractions, can be reframed as codified artifacts of the mind, shaped by phylogenetic inheritance, stabilized by neural coding, and expressed through cognitive and cultural configurations.</div><div>Marcello Barbieri's Code Biology demonstrates that life is driven not only by biochemical causality but also by natural conventions — systems of natural correspondence that create functional structures, or bio-artifacts, through processes of translation carried out by molecular mediators. Similarly, research in neuroscience identifies neural codes as dynamic patterns of brain activity that organize perception, emotion, and cognition.</div><div>Building on this, this paper advances the hypothesis that archetypes operate as neurofunctional artifacts — internal configurations that stabilize recurring experiences across individuals and cultures, leading to expressive forms such as myths, dreams, and emotional constellations that shape human meaning-making. These artifacts are not limited to biology or psyche alone; they now appear in the digital realm. The rise of generative AI systems, such as large language models (LLMs), introduces a new category of algorithmic artifacts that replicate archetypes. These systems simulate meaning without subjective intentionality.</div><div>This interdisciplinary framework brings together biology, psychology, and AI under a unified theory of codified form. Archetypes, in this perspective, are artifacts instantiated by lower-level codes that serve as mediators in higher-level interpretative processes — acting as a bridge between gene and glyph, neuron and narrative, matter and symbol … and silicon.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50730,"journal":{"name":"Biosystems","volume":"254 ","pages":"Article 105516"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144276532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Metschnikowia bicuspidata in aquaculture: Pathogenesis, characteristics, and biocontrol approaches 水产养殖中的双尖裂腹螨：发病机制、特征和生物防治方法。

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Biosystems Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105518

Vinh Hong Thinh Le , Baoying Lu , Yunxia Hu, Qinghua Wang

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